Pessoa's early (and very good) English poems are consistent with his later work in their invention of a fictive voice and persona. Here the speaker echoes the epigrams of the Greek anthology, adopting a cool, distanced "classical voice", in composing what would seem to be ancient Roman or Greek tomb inscriptions.

I had intended to post the complete Inscriptions, with titles and covers and end pages, in facsimile, but the high-res jpg files of these were simply too simply too big for our weak little old computer (which, too, dates from the days of the ancients).

At any rate, this selection of seven of the Inscriptions represents my own editorial judgment. Other editors doubtless would have made different choices.

Here are the ones I've left out, which, as I've gone to the trouble to type them out, may prove of interest to somebody.